Innovada Chairs Sensor Research Commercialisation Showcase 2006

Breadth of presentations and event popularity point to the growing interest in sensor applications

Dublin, Ireland - 13 Jan 2006. Innovada, the device connectivity company, will chair the Sensor Research Commercialisation Showcase 2006 with the theme of profiling commercially relevant Irish sensors research. The event, organised by Investnet, and presented by Investnet in association with Dublin City University and Enterprise Ireland, will take place on Thursday, 26th January 2006, in the Invent Centre, DCU, Dublin 9, Ireland.

"Innovada has market-proven credentials in device connectivity solutions for real-world sensors such as sensing the consumption of electricity," stated Ben Hurley, CEO of Innovada. "As a company whose raison d'être and track-record include the successful commercialisation of wireless and wired sensor products and solutions, Innovada has a particular interest in commercially-relevant Irish sensors research, and is delighted to support the profiling of these activities," added Hurley.

Further information can be found at www.firsttuesday.ie/events/eventsc.html

About Innovada

Innovada is a world-class innovator of wireless and wired device communications solutions for global markets. Innovada's solutions are used and deployed by some of the world's largest utilities. Innovada is the communications provider of choice to the market leader in polyphase electricity metering. Innovada has unique technology and expertise targeted at the fast-growing market for devices that communicate information, including among others applications such as automated meter reading (AMR), wireless sensor networks (WSN), machine-to-machine communications (M2M), and point-of-sale terminals (POS).

Innovada's wireless AMR solutions are unique in their breadth of wireless technologies, including GSM/GPRS, CDMA/1xRTT, and license-free ISM band solutions. Innovada's wireless platforms uniquely combine customer domain knowledge, communications flexibility, and cost-effectiveness in experience-determined packages. Innovada's unique, proprietary modem offering is the simplest and most cost-effective fixed-line modem solution for embedded applications in global markets.

Innovada sells its product solutions directly to global OEMs and other companies active in utility metering, point-of-sale terminals, machine-to-machine applications, set-top-boxes, security panels and other verticals, and through partnerships with global leading RISC microprocessor brands.